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Sea Power and the Western Revolution (Prize Essay, 1953)

Whatever else he may have to say about the trials and vicissitudes of his existence, no one may rightfully claim he was bored by the life and times of the twentieth century. As we stand at the second half of it we can look back on five decades of the most prodigious social up­heavals which the world has ever seen—and we can look forward to a future even more uncertain, if possible, than the past from which we just emerged. In forty convulsive, fateful years the comfortable, secure, sub­limely confident world we knew in 1912 has been swept away by the rising tide of a world revolution which places in some doubt the issue of our survival as a civilization.

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